Interested to know about developers getting into the latest version of the Android SDK as to whether there is anything good for audio and music in the latest version.
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signs point to good re latency and other longstanding issues, but it will take a while for people to get upgrades / switch phones...
The problem with Android is that its targeted for phones, not pocket computer or mp3 player (Samsung seems to be the only ones making an Android mp3 player, and its not even available where I live).
If you don't want to get a phone (which usually requires you to sign up for 3 years or pay an astronomical amount of cash), there aren't many options, if at all. Used Android phones aren't cheap either.
In the meantime Apple sells millions of ipod touches to people who don't want to get the iphone, yet somehow nobody else seems to have thought of this.
Apple uses iTunes as leverage for iPod touch sales. No one else has that. (Just look how hard other MP3 player vendors have struggled. Zune?) Also the iPod touch is the gateway drug to iPhone and iPad profits for Apple. It's a very potent combination that has yet proven uncrackable.
What I am wondering is why there's not that much affordable pocket computers. As an everyday Palm user (I still use my T5 everyday as my media player/toilet gaming machine) I would definitely buy a WebOS device, but sadly its only being sold as a phone. Why not expand? Apple understood that not everybody wanted to get a phone. Others don't seem to see there's a huge market besides smartphones (which still counts for 25% of all mobile phones sold).
What the above anon was getting at is that apple has huge profits from the app store and itunes, so it can sell pod touches at below cost. This is a bit of a questionable practice but that's another discussion.
Other manufacturers don't have that, so even if they attempt to sell devices at cost, they aren't competitively priced/specd. Look at motorola xoom. The same things that plague the competition in the tablet market carry over to the pocket sized computer market (possibly worse because the market is even smaller).
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signs point to good re latency and other longstanding issues, but it will take a while for people to get upgrades / switch phones...
The problem with Android is that its targeted for phones, not pocket computer or mp3 player (Samsung seems to be the only ones making an Android mp3 player, and its not even available where I live).
If you don't want to get a phone (which usually requires you to sign up for 3 years or pay an astronomical amount of cash), there aren't many options, if at all. Used Android phones aren't cheap either.
In the meantime Apple sells millions of ipod touches to people who don't want to get the iphone, yet somehow nobody else seems to have thought of this.
@johnnyg0
Apple uses iTunes as leverage for iPod touch sales. No one else has that. (Just look how hard other MP3 player vendors have struggled. Zune?) Also the iPod touch is the gateway drug to iPhone and iPad profits for Apple. It's a very potent combination that has yet proven uncrackable.
@Anonymous
What I am wondering is why there's not that much affordable pocket computers. As an everyday Palm user (I still use my T5 everyday as my media player/toilet gaming machine) I would definitely buy a WebOS device, but sadly its only being sold as a phone. Why not expand? Apple understood that not everybody wanted to get a phone. Others don't seem to see there's a huge market besides smartphones (which still counts for 25% of all mobile phones sold).
What the above anon was getting at is that apple has huge profits from the app store and itunes, so it can sell pod touches at below cost. This is a bit of a questionable practice but that's another discussion.
Other manufacturers don't have that, so even if they attempt to sell devices at cost, they aren't competitively priced/specd. Look at motorola xoom. The same things that plague the competition in the tablet market carry over to the pocket sized computer market (possibly worse because the market is even smaller).
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